The statue formerly stood beside Soviet apartment blocks in, what was then, East Berlin but, after the fall of The Berlin Wall, the 19-metre-high statue was broken into 120 pieces and buried under sand and rocks in a forest location. The exhibition’s organisers encountered significant opposition to their plans to dig up the statue, but were eventually granted permission and Lenin’s head will be on display at the Spandau Citadel in western Berlin in September. Read more: thelocal.de

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